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* The prevalence of the ScavengersAreMean means a lot of "cool" predators like lions, bears, and wolves are presented as ''solely'' hunting, when they actually scavenge a lot of their meals. On the opposite side, many scavengers are depicted as strict scavengers when they also hunt.
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* The prevalence of the ScavengersAreMean ScavengersAreScum means a lot of "cool" predators like lions, bears, and wolves are presented as ''solely'' hunting, when they actually scavenge a lot of their meals. On the opposite side, many scavengers are depicted as strict scavengers when they also hunt.
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* Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora.
* [[http://albertonykus.tumblr.com/post/157422323614/better-know-a-rodent-a-gnawing-pet-peeve There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents]], including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
* [[http://albertonykus.tumblr.com/post/157422323614/better-know-a-rodent-a-gnawing-pet-peeve There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents]], including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
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* Confusing porpoises with dolphins. Dolphins have conical teeth and curved dorsal fins, whereas porpoises have spade-shaped teeth and triangular dorsal fins. Also, porpoises have shorter mouths than most dolphins.
* Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the orderCarnivora.
* [[http://albertonykus.tumblr.com/post/157422323614/better-know-a-rodent-a-gnawing-pet-peeveCarnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents]], rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
* Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order
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* Referring to opossums and possums as one and the same. "Possum" refers to the Australian marsupials of the Phalangeriformes suborder in the order Diprotodontia, whereas "'''o'''possum" refers to the New World marsupials of the order Didelphimorpha.
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* Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, leopards and jaguars having solid spots like cheetahs instead of rosettes, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, and chipmunks having shorter deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
* Many UsefulNotes/FurryFandom artists who draw cats draw them with torsos that taper toward the hind legs like dog torsos. Cheetahs may have torsos that look a bit like that, but other cats have more or less parallel torsos.
* There is a slight tendency for some [[ShowTheirWork (but by no means all)]] Furry artists to presume that all mammals go about... certain activities... in ways similar to either [[MostWritersAreHuman Humans]] or [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Dogs,]] or at least how some people presume dogs to go about them (see above). Then again, an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break from Reality]], as when did RuleThirtyFour care about anatomical correctness even when it was just humans involved?
* Any Christmas movie or TV special that shows female reindeer (a.k.a. caribou!) without antlers, or male reindeer retaining their antlers into December, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fails biology forever]]. Females of the species need antlers to guard their young from predators, whereas males shed theirs after the rutting season, with one exception: males retain antlers in winter if they have a "special operation". Older Christmas specials tend to show extremely dainty brown deer that don't resemble reindeer at all.
* In almost all Christmas-related art or movies, at least for the animated ones, the reindeer tend to resemble Whitetail deer or Blackbuck antelope rather than actual Reindeer, being far too small and delicately built.
* Many a work draw certain mammals with noses shaped like cat-noses or dog-noses when they're not supposed to have them in real life. Particularly rodents, lagomorphs, apes, monkeys, walruses, ruminants and sloths.
* The urban legend of the "Mexican pet" loses any veneer of plausibility to anyone who has ever seen a rat up close, or knows anything about their behavior. Even an extremely near-sighted tourist would've surely caught on that an animal with grasping toes on all four feet, which ''climbs'' things and clutches food in its front paws while eating, can't possibly be a dog.
* Rats are often depicted in animation as having a mouthful of shark-like teeth. A real rat has four flat incisors in the front of their mouth, molars in the back, and nothing between. They certainly don't have pointed canines (or any canines at all).
* Cartoons and other works often depict characters entering a whale's mouth and gut, then emerging through the blowhole in a spray of water. Cetaceans' digestive and respiratory tracts are entirely separate, and they expel exhaled air, not water, from the latter.
* Anteaters in cartoons are sometimes depicted with flexible snouts like an elephant's trunk. Real anteaters' snouts are bony, unlike the boneless, muscle-filled trunk of an elephant, and thus cannot flex their snout around like elephants. Not to mention they are sometimes portrayed having their mouths at the base of the snout rather than at the tip.
* Conversely, though usually only in poor-quality animation, occasionally elephants are seen with their mouths in the tips of their trunks, like anteaters.
* Elephants and camels do not have "four knees". They have the same limb joints -- shoulder, elbow and wrist in front; hip, knee and ankle in back -- as with every other mammal. They merely have thick callouses on the anterior sides of their wrists, which ''look'' something like their actual knees' surfaces.
* Big cats such as lions and tigers are often drawn with slitted pupils not unlike those of domestic cats, even though in real life big cats have round pupils.
* Some mammals with vertical pupils such as foxes and pandas are almost always drawn with round pupils instead.
* Generally in Western animation, such as ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', skunk spray is depicted as gaseous rather than fluid and coming from the tail when actually coming from anal glands.
* Many cartoon chipmunks, namely [[WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale Chip and Dale]], are usually drawn with short tails similar to a deer's. Real chipmunks have longer tails resembling that of a squirrel's, only thinner.
* Hyenas are often referred to as dogs and/or drawn as resembling such. Despite their canine resemblance, hyenas are actually more closely related to mongoose which in turn are more closely related to ''cats''.
* Porcupines [[SpikeShooter shooting their quills as projectiles]], despite the quills being basically modified ''hair''. North American porcupines [[BewareMyStingerTail swing their tails at their enemies so their easily detachable quills dislodge in their faces]], while Old World porcupines ram backwards at their enemies.
* Domestic animals in period pieces looking like their modern day descendants. Most modern day dog, cat, and horse breeds are NewerThanTheyThink (with many being less than 300 years old). Going back millenia, prehistoric horses don't resemble most modern horses. They more resembled donkeys or Przewalski's horses, having brown/dun pelts, "primitive markings" (stripes, etc), short, upright manes, and stocky bodies.
* Cartoon beavers are usually drawn with white incisors. Real beavers have orange or yellow incisors.
* Koalas in media are usually portrayed with only one thumb on each paw, despite real koalas having two thumbs. Although this may be because a two-thumbed hand is considered too [[RealityIsUnrealistic unrealistic]] and freaky.
* Jaguars in cartoons often lack the dots in the center of their rosettes which distinguishes them from leopards, possibly because of confusion between the two big cats. Both jaguars and leopards will also sometimes have solid spots like cheetahs.
* Cheetahs are often depicted lacking the distinctive stripes on their tails and sides of their muzzles.
* Many cartoon chimpanzees and gorillas are portrayed with brown fur, when these apes have black fur in real life.
* Horns and antlers being considered the same thing. Antlers are bony structures possessed by cervids such as deer and moose which are branched, covered in skin, and are shed when the growth is finished. Horns however end in a point, are covered in keratin, do not shed, and never stop growing.
* Long tails of monkeys are invariably portrayed as prehensile, even if the work is set in Africa or Asia. In real life, prehensile tails are a trait exclusive to New World monkeys. Also, most monkeys have legs longer than their arms, unlike many cartoons which show them having longer arms than legs.
* Due to their stubby looking legs, Dachshunds and Corgis are presented as slow dogs who can barely walk, nevermind run. While modern Dachshunds aren't quite as active as they originally were (and are more prone to back issues), all three breeds were bred to work (as ratters and herders respectively) and are thus fleet-footed.
* Cartoons usually portray the common hippopotamus as a cute, friendly, lovable, and contented animal. In reality, hippos are ''extremely'' [[HairTriggerTemper aggressive]] and [[TheBerserker violent]], attacking anything that comes within their territory or even their very presence, to the point they're considered the most dangerous animals in Africa.
* Hippos are also almost always portrayed swimming. Despite being semi-aquatic, hippos actually cannot swim and walk underwater instead, since they sink to the bottom.
* Portraying female elephants as tuskless. While this is true for Asian elephants, female African elephants possess tusks like the males do. And even then tusks are present in some female Asian elephants, but these are very small and unnoticeable at first glance.
* Cows are often depicted as being able to give milk anytime, regardless of whether they've recently had offspring.
* Mandrills are often confused for baboons, due to their faces being shaped similarly. But mandrills have colorful faces and stubby tails, unlike baboons.
* There is a slight tendency for some [[ShowTheirWork (but by no means all)]] Furry artists to presume that all mammals go about... certain activities... in ways similar to either [[MostWritersAreHuman Humans]] or [[AllAnimalsAreDogs Dogs,]] or at least how some people presume dogs to go about them (see above). Then again, an [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality Acceptable Break from Reality]], as when did RuleThirtyFour care about anatomical correctness even when it was just humans involved?
* Any Christmas movie or TV special that shows female reindeer (a.k.a. caribou!) without antlers, or male reindeer retaining their antlers into December, [[ArtisticLicenseBiology fails biology forever]]. Females of the species need antlers to guard their young from predators, whereas males shed theirs after the rutting season, with one exception: males retain antlers in winter if they have a "special operation". Older Christmas specials tend to show extremely dainty brown deer that don't resemble reindeer at all.
* In almost all Christmas-related art or movies, at least for the animated ones, the reindeer tend to resemble Whitetail deer or Blackbuck antelope rather than actual Reindeer, being far too small and delicately built.
* Many a work draw certain mammals with noses shaped like cat-noses or dog-noses when they're not supposed to have them in real life. Particularly rodents, lagomorphs, apes, monkeys, walruses, ruminants and sloths.
* The urban legend of the "Mexican pet" loses any veneer of plausibility to anyone who has ever seen a rat up close, or knows anything about their behavior. Even an extremely near-sighted tourist would've surely caught on that an animal with grasping toes on all four feet, which ''climbs'' things and clutches food in its front paws while eating, can't possibly be a dog.
* Rats are often depicted in animation as having a mouthful of shark-like teeth. A real rat has four flat incisors in the front of their mouth, molars in the back, and nothing between. They certainly don't have pointed canines (or any canines at all).
* Cartoons and other works often depict characters entering a whale's mouth and gut, then emerging through the blowhole in a spray of water. Cetaceans' digestive and respiratory tracts are entirely separate, and they expel exhaled air, not water, from the latter.
* Anteaters in cartoons are sometimes depicted with flexible snouts like an elephant's trunk. Real anteaters' snouts are bony, unlike the boneless, muscle-filled trunk of an elephant, and thus cannot flex their snout around like elephants. Not to mention they are sometimes portrayed having their mouths at the base of the snout rather than at the tip.
* Conversely, though usually only in poor-quality animation, occasionally elephants are seen with their mouths in the tips of their trunks, like anteaters.
* Elephants and camels do not have "four knees". They have the same limb joints -- shoulder, elbow and wrist in front; hip, knee and ankle in back -- as with every other mammal. They merely have thick callouses on the anterior sides of their wrists, which ''look'' something like their actual knees' surfaces.
* Big cats such as lions and tigers are often drawn with slitted pupils not unlike those of domestic cats, even though in real life big cats have round pupils.
* Some mammals with vertical pupils such as foxes and pandas are almost always drawn with round pupils instead.
* Generally in Western animation, such as ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'', skunk spray is depicted as gaseous rather than fluid and coming from the tail when actually coming from anal glands.
* Many cartoon chipmunks, namely [[WesternAnimation/ChipAndDale Chip and Dale]], are usually drawn with short tails similar to a deer's. Real chipmunks have longer tails resembling that of a squirrel's, only thinner.
* Hyenas are often referred to as dogs and/or drawn as resembling such. Despite their canine resemblance, hyenas are actually more closely related to mongoose which in turn are more closely related to ''cats''.
* Porcupines [[SpikeShooter shooting their quills as projectiles]], despite the quills being basically modified ''hair''. North American porcupines [[BewareMyStingerTail swing their tails at their enemies so their easily detachable quills dislodge in their faces]], while Old World porcupines ram backwards at their enemies.
* Domestic animals in period pieces looking like their modern day descendants. Most modern day dog, cat, and horse breeds are NewerThanTheyThink (with many being less than 300 years old). Going back millenia, prehistoric horses don't resemble most modern horses. They more resembled donkeys or Przewalski's horses, having brown/dun pelts, "primitive markings" (stripes, etc), short, upright manes, and stocky bodies.
* Cartoon beavers are usually drawn with white incisors. Real beavers have orange or yellow incisors.
* Koalas in media are usually portrayed with only one thumb on each paw, despite real koalas having two thumbs. Although this may be because a two-thumbed hand is considered too [[RealityIsUnrealistic unrealistic]] and freaky.
* Jaguars in cartoons often lack the dots in the center of their rosettes which distinguishes them from leopards, possibly because of confusion between the two big cats. Both jaguars and leopards will also sometimes have solid spots like cheetahs.
* Cheetahs are often depicted lacking the distinctive stripes on their tails and sides of their muzzles.
* Many cartoon chimpanzees and gorillas are portrayed with brown fur, when these apes have black fur in real life.
* Horns and antlers being considered the same thing. Antlers are bony structures possessed by cervids such as deer and moose which are branched, covered in skin, and are shed when the growth is finished. Horns however end in a point, are covered in keratin, do not shed, and never stop growing.
* Long tails of monkeys are invariably portrayed as prehensile, even if the work is set in Africa or Asia. In real life, prehensile tails are a trait exclusive to New World monkeys. Also, most monkeys have legs longer than their arms, unlike many cartoons which show them having longer arms than legs.
* Due to their stubby looking legs, Dachshunds and Corgis are presented as slow dogs who can barely walk, nevermind run. While modern Dachshunds aren't quite as active as they originally were (and are more prone to back issues), all three breeds were bred to work (as ratters and herders respectively) and are thus fleet-footed.
* Cartoons usually portray the common hippopotamus as a cute, friendly, lovable, and contented animal. In reality, hippos are ''extremely'' [[HairTriggerTemper aggressive]] and [[TheBerserker violent]], attacking anything that comes within their territory or even their very presence, to the point they're considered the most dangerous animals in Africa.
* Hippos are also almost always portrayed swimming. Despite being semi-aquatic, hippos actually cannot swim and walk underwater instead, since they sink to the bottom.
* Portraying female elephants as tuskless. While this is true for Asian elephants, female African elephants possess tusks like the males do. And even then tusks are present in some female Asian elephants, but these are very small and unnoticeable at first glance.
* Cows are often depicted as being able to give milk anytime, regardless of whether they've recently had offspring.
* Mandrills are often confused for baboons, due to their faces being shaped similarly. But mandrills have colorful faces and stubby tails, unlike baboons.
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* Dogs don't have packs reliant on alpha males. In fact, feral dogs don't form packs[[note]]Research on feral dogs suggest they and wolves don't form packs as generally conceived by mass media. Wolf packs tend to be organized like families from the old country, in which the old patriarch is in charge of all his descendants until the family gets so large and tensions so great that one of the kids decides to take his descendants elsewhere. The lay understanding of canine social behavior is based on findings with wolves tested in highly artificial captivity before scientists understood the influences of environment. The findings have generally not been replicated, indicating that the reported structure was more how a particular group of unrelated wolves dealt with captivity. People generalized the findings to dogs because dogs and wolves are closely related.
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* Related, the use of the words alpha, beta and omega in relation to wolves is considered outdated now, the logic being that these words imply a strict hierarchy where lower ranking wolves constantly vie for dominance, rather than the usually unchallenged family unit that a pack is. Wild wolves do not normally fight over dominance, instead they leave and form their own packs. These words are more suited for wolves in zoos and the like, who being unrelated individuals, have the strict hierarchy and vie for dominance like it was once assumed that all wolves do.
* Pigs being dirty animals who adore filth and mud. When pigs are left it optimum environments it's shown that they're clean by animal standards. They roll in mud because they don't sweat like humans do.
* The prevalence of the ScavengersAreMean means a lot of "cool" predators like lions, bears, and wolves are presented as ''solely'' hunting, when they actually scavenge a lot of their meals. On the opposite side, many scavengers are depicted as strict scavengers when they also hunt.
* Anything that portrays spotted hyenas as being dumb and exclusively scavengers. Believe it or not, lions are not as intelligent as hyenas, who are among the most intelligent animals on earth, and lions scavenge more than they do. Hyenas kill 75% of the food they eat whereas lions scavenge over 50% of what they eat. Hyenas prefer to eat their prey alive, mostly due to lions stealing their kills (which, contrary to popular belief, happens more often than the other way around). With that said, some species of hyena are indeed primarily scavengers, namely the brown hyena and the striped hyena. By contrast, the fourth living species of hyena, the aardwolf, is an insectivore and doesn't even eat from carcass.
* There's the portrayal of the hyena's laugh as actual laughter. In real life, the "laugh" of the spotted hyena is a form of vocalization when the hyena is in distress or fighting with another hyena.
* It is often believed that eucalyptus leaves make a koala become inebriated, which is why they spend most of their time sleeping. In reality, koalas sleep because they are conserving their energy since eucalyptus leaves do not provide enough of it.
* Portraying tree squirrels as hibernating through the winter. This may be because they are rarely seen in cold temperatures, but in reality they're huddling inside their dens to keep warm while not actually hibernating.
* Portraying opossums sleeping by hanging from tree branches with their tails alone. While real opossums do use only their tails to stabilize their position, they can only do it for short periods of time because of their body weight.
* {{Cat Stereotype}}s and {{Dog Stereotype}}s oftentimes go against the actual behavior of breeds:
** Many supposedly "dainty, girly" breeds are depicted as lazy and passive lapdogs, no matter what the dog was originally bred to do or how they usually behave. In reality many aren't. For example, Standard Poodles were hunting dogs and are just as athletic as Golden Retrievers and, despite their pretty looks, Westies and Yorkies ''are'' terriers and are thus are as active and stubborn as their wirehaired brethren.
** Persians, Siamese, and Sphynxs get hit with CatsAreMean the most but all three breeds are known for being affectionate and social cats.
** Basset Hounds and Bloodhounds as perpetually lazy. Despite their goofy looking bags, they're active dogs.
** Most "Pit Bull" breeds are used as {{Angry Guard Dog}}s in fiction. While many are naturally dog aggressive, they aren't supposed to be ''people'' aggressive (but bad breeding and bad training means some are even in real life). This is why they appeared as friendly HeroicDogs in turn-of-the-century media like ''Film/TheLittleRascals''.
* It's commonly claimed that lions are the only truly social cats, even by professional sources such as documentaries. Most male cheetahs (but only rarely females) form coalitions (usually with their brothers but sometimes with unrelated males) that stay together for life to hunt, court females, and defend territories together. House cats may bond socially with other cats in the house, or if feral, form colonies in the wild. Tigers sometimes exhibit borderline social behavior; sharing kills (but not hunting together) and overlapping territories and interacting whenever they come across one another. This is in part due to ScienceMarchesOn, as for a long time domestic cats especially were thought to be solo animals.
* Common werewolf portrayals are often guilty of this regarding wolf biology. Besides having a taste for human flesh (wolves rarely attack humans let alone eat them) and having razor-sharp claws (wolves have blunt nails), the association of werewolves with the full moon is based on the misconception that wolves howl at the moon.
* The prevalence of the ScavengersAreMean means a lot of "cool" predators like lions, bears, and wolves are presented as ''solely'' hunting, when they actually scavenge a lot of their meals. On the opposite side, many scavengers are depicted as strict scavengers when they also hunt.
* Anything that portrays spotted hyenas as being dumb and exclusively scavengers. Believe it or not, lions are not as intelligent as hyenas, who are among the most intelligent animals on earth, and lions scavenge more than they do. Hyenas kill 75% of the food they eat whereas lions scavenge over 50% of what they eat. Hyenas prefer to eat their prey alive, mostly due to lions stealing their kills (which, contrary to popular belief, happens more often than the other way around). With that said, some species of hyena are indeed primarily scavengers, namely the brown hyena and the striped hyena. By contrast, the fourth living species of hyena, the aardwolf, is an insectivore and doesn't even eat from carcass.
* There's the portrayal of the hyena's laugh as actual laughter. In real life, the "laugh" of the spotted hyena is a form of vocalization when the hyena is in distress or fighting with another hyena.
* It is often believed that eucalyptus leaves make a koala become inebriated, which is why they spend most of their time sleeping. In reality, koalas sleep because they are conserving their energy since eucalyptus leaves do not provide enough of it.
* Portraying tree squirrels as hibernating through the winter. This may be because they are rarely seen in cold temperatures, but in reality they're huddling inside their dens to keep warm while not actually hibernating.
* Portraying opossums sleeping by hanging from tree branches with their tails alone. While real opossums do use only their tails to stabilize their position, they can only do it for short periods of time because of their body weight.
* {{Cat Stereotype}}s and {{Dog Stereotype}}s oftentimes go against the actual behavior of breeds:
** Many supposedly "dainty, girly" breeds are depicted as lazy and passive lapdogs, no matter what the dog was originally bred to do or how they usually behave. In reality many aren't. For example, Standard Poodles were hunting dogs and are just as athletic as Golden Retrievers and, despite their pretty looks, Westies and Yorkies ''are'' terriers and are thus are as active and stubborn as their wirehaired brethren.
** Persians, Siamese, and Sphynxs get hit with CatsAreMean the most but all three breeds are known for being affectionate and social cats.
** Basset Hounds and Bloodhounds as perpetually lazy. Despite their goofy looking bags, they're active dogs.
** Most "Pit Bull" breeds are used as {{Angry Guard Dog}}s in fiction. While many are naturally dog aggressive, they aren't supposed to be ''people'' aggressive (but bad breeding and bad training means some are even in real life). This is why they appeared as friendly HeroicDogs in turn-of-the-century media like ''Film/TheLittleRascals''.
* It's commonly claimed that lions are the only truly social cats, even by professional sources such as documentaries. Most male cheetahs (but only rarely females) form coalitions (usually with their brothers but sometimes with unrelated males) that stay together for life to hunt, court females, and defend territories together. House cats may bond socially with other cats in the house, or if feral, form colonies in the wild. Tigers sometimes exhibit borderline social behavior; sharing kills (but not hunting together) and overlapping territories and interacting whenever they come across one another. This is in part due to ScienceMarchesOn, as for a long time domestic cats especially were thought to be solo animals.
* Common werewolf portrayals are often guilty of this regarding wolf biology. Besides having a taste for human flesh (wolves rarely attack humans let alone eat them) and having razor-sharp claws (wolves have blunt nails), the association of werewolves with the full moon is based on the misconception that wolves howl at the moon.
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Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
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* Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.Pleistocene.
* Depicting Pleistocene megafauna as extremely ancient (or even Mesozoic); in fact, they shared the planet with early humans.
* Christmas works never show caribou with the correct type of harness for pulling a sleigh. A proper harness places the burden on an animal's shoulders and flanks; in holiday art, they're usually shown dragging Santa along by leads tied to their ''necks'', which would strangle them.
* Many a work has depicted ferrets as being wild animals; even a few places where ferrets are illegal (particularly because under the belief that they are "wild animals that will wreck the environment if they get loose") have made this mistake, much to ferret owners' dismay. Ferrets, the pet animal, are a domesticated animal--specifically, domesticated European Polecats (a kind of weasel)--which have been domesticated at least since Ancient Egypt, [[APetIntoTheWild which some ferret owners unfortunately forget when they "release" them into the wild]] if they get tired of the ferret, leading to some feral populations. It may be mix-up with the wild [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret black-footed ferret]], but the latter are highly endangered and generally live only where prairie dogs have a large population. Domesticated ferrets come from European stock, while Black-footed ferrets are uniquely American.
* Domestic cats being descended from (or at least closely related to) big cats such as lions or tigers. In reality, domestic cats are descended from much smaller, and obscure, wildcats.
* Depicting Pleistocene megafauna as extremely ancient (or even Mesozoic); in fact, they shared the planet with early humans.
* Christmas works never show caribou with the correct type of harness for pulling a sleigh. A proper harness places the burden on an animal's shoulders and flanks; in holiday art, they're usually shown dragging Santa along by leads tied to their ''necks'', which would strangle them.
* Many a work has depicted ferrets as being wild animals; even a few places where ferrets are illegal (particularly because under the belief that they are "wild animals that will wreck the environment if they get loose") have made this mistake, much to ferret owners' dismay. Ferrets, the pet animal, are a domesticated animal--specifically, domesticated European Polecats (a kind of weasel)--which have been domesticated at least since Ancient Egypt, [[APetIntoTheWild which some ferret owners unfortunately forget when they "release" them into the wild]] if they get tired of the ferret, leading to some feral populations. It may be mix-up with the wild [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-footed_ferret black-footed ferret]], but the latter are highly endangered and generally live only where prairie dogs have a large population. Domesticated ferrets come from European stock, while Black-footed ferrets are uniquely American.
* Domestic cats being descended from (or at least closely related to) big cats such as lions or tigers. In reality, domestic cats are descended from much smaller, and obscure, wildcats.
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* Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
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* Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. Carnivora.
* [[http://albertonykus.tumblr.com/post/157422323614/better-know-a-rodent-a-gnawing-pet-peeve There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken forrodents, rodents]], including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
* [[http://albertonykus.tumblr.com/post/157422323614/better-know-a-rodent-a-gnawing-pet-peeve There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for
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!!General Taxonomy Mistakes Concerning Mammals
One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples is mistaking cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for fish.
There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins).
Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
There's also elephants being referred to as pachyderms. Pachydermata was a taxonomic group that included not just elephants but also rhinos and hippos, since these three animals have thick skin (hence the group's name meaning). But thanks to anatomical and ancestral differences, we now know elephants, rhinos, and hippos are from separate mammal groups. With rhinos being more closely related to horses, hippos to whales, and elephants to manatees.
And don't forget that humans are NOT descended from monkeys. We're descended from apes. And we still are apes. Great Apes, to be specific.[[note]]Actually, this is one of the great controversies in biology wings, especially with the rise of cladistics (in short: treating all of evolution like a family tree rather than using the kingdom-phylum-class structure), and its proponents saying that we, indeed, ''do'' descend from monkeys; apes are a subset of monkey like human is a subset of ape.[[/note]]
!!General Mammal Anatomy Mistakes
People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct.
Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in certain rodents such as squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth.
Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Plus, they will usually be resembling Indian elephants in cartoons, even when set in Africa.
Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giant}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of black.
Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, leopards and jaguars having solid spots like cheetahs instead of rosettes, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, and chipmunks having shorter deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
!!Other Mistakes Concerning Mammals
One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples is mistaking cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for fish.
There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins).
Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
There's also elephants being referred to as pachyderms. Pachydermata was a taxonomic group that included not just elephants but also rhinos and hippos, since these three animals have thick skin (hence the group's name meaning). But thanks to anatomical and ancestral differences, we now know elephants, rhinos, and hippos are from separate mammal groups. With rhinos being more closely related to horses, hippos to whales, and elephants to manatees.
And don't forget that humans are NOT descended from monkeys. We're descended from apes. And we still are apes. Great Apes, to be specific.[[note]]Actually, this is one of the great controversies in biology wings, especially with the rise of cladistics (in short: treating all of evolution like a family tree rather than using the kingdom-phylum-class structure), and its proponents saying that we, indeed, ''do'' descend from monkeys; apes are a subset of monkey like human is a subset of ape.[[/note]]
!!General Mammal Anatomy Mistakes
People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct.
Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in certain rodents such as squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth.
Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Plus, they will usually be resembling Indian elephants in cartoons, even when set in Africa.
Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giant}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of black.
Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, leopards and jaguars having solid spots like cheetahs instead of rosettes, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, and chipmunks having shorter deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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* One of the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} examples is mistaking cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for fish.
* There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but
Another example is the fact that many
*Many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.
There's also elephants
* Elephants being referred to as pachyderms. Pachydermata was a taxonomic group that included not just elephants but also rhinos and hippos, since these three animals have thick skin (hence the group's name meaning). But thanks to anatomical and ancestral differences, we now know elephants, rhinos, and hippos are from separate mammal groups. With rhinos being more closely related to horses, hippos to whales, and elephants to
* And don't forget that humans are NOT descended from monkeys. We're descended from apes. And we still are apes. Great Apes, to be specific.[[note]]Actually, this is one of the great controversies in biology wings, especially with the rise of cladistics (in short: treating all of evolution like a family tree rather than using the kingdom-phylum-class structure), and its proponents saying that we, indeed, ''do'' descend from monkeys; apes are a subset of monkey like human is a subset of ape.[[/note]]
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* People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now
* Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in certain rodents such as squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine
* Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Plus, they will usually be resembling Indian elephants in cartoons, even when set in
* Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giant}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of
* Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, leopards and jaguars having solid spots like cheetahs instead of rosettes, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, and chipmunks having shorter deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like
!!Other
* As pointed out on ''Series/{{QI}}'', dogs don't do it Doggy Style: due to the coupling knot, they should be depicted tail-to-tail facing away from each other during climax.
* AllDogsArePurebred applying to feral dogs. This isn't exactly ''impossible'' but is most prevalent in areas where street dogs aren't commonplace. In places where they are, within a few generations most dogs turn into generic mongrels who are usually medium-sized dogs with erect ears and are coloured shades like brown or tan (though this depends on the area and the types of dogs that are popular).
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* Dogs don't have packs reliant on alpha males. In fact, feral dogs don't form packs[[note]]Research on feral dogs suggest they and wolves don't form packs as generally conceived by mass media. Wolf packs tend to be organized like families from the old country, in which the old patriarch is in charge of all his descendants until the family gets so large and tensions so great that one of the kids decides to take his descendants elsewhere. The lay understanding of canine social behavior is based on findings with wolves tested in highly artificial captivity before scientists understood the influences of environment. The findings have generally not been replicated, indicating that the reported structure was more how a particular group of unrelated wolves dealt with captivity. People generalized the findings to dogs because dogs and wolves are closely related.
* Works tend to depict stray and feral dogs acting like wolves (or at least their preconception of wolves). This is incorrect as dogs have been bred for thousands of years to ''not'' be wolves. Thus, despite being very closely related, they're very different behaviorally and psychologically. For example, research on feral dogs suggests that dogs don't naturally form packs like wolves do. Dogs also scavenge more than wolves and they don't hunt with the same techniques as wolves. It's been described that hunting dogs look more like they're playing than they're killing, as they slash and bite wherever they can grip (unlike wolves, who are more precise when hunting).
* As AllAnimalsAreDogs mentions, wolves in media tend to act much like dogs. Dogs, however, act like wolf ''pups''. Many behaviors that dogs do are abnormal for adult wolves, including wagging tails and barking (which wolves seldom do).
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Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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There's also elephants being referred to as pachyderms. Pachydermata was a taxonomic group that included not just elephants but also rhinos and hippos, since these three animals have thick skin (hence the group's name meaning). But thanks to anatomical and ancestral differences, we now know elephants, rhinos, and hippos are from separate mammal groups. With rhinos being more closely related to horses, hippos to whales, and elephants to manatees.
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Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giants}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of black.
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Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giants}}s Giant}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of black.
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Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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Gorillas are usually portrayed doing their PrimalChestPound with clenched fists instead of cupped or open hands. As well as being [[KillerGorilla violent and aggressive]], despite real gorillas being {{Gentle Giants}}s preferring to solve problems diplomatically. They, along with chimpanzees, often have their fur colored brown instead of black.
Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills,chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, hippopotamuses being docile creatures, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, sloth noses being dog-like rather than pig-like, chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth.
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Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in certain rodents such as squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth.
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Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. extinct.
Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canineteeth. teeth.
Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Plus, they will always be Indian elephants in cartoons, even when set in Africa.
Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine
Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Plus, they will always be Indian elephants in cartoons, even when set in Africa.
Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons.cartoons; the same mistake also occurs in squirrels and chipmunks, which have rabbit-like noses only wider and more shaped like a "U". Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife; and their noses are usually drawn looking more like a cat's or a dog's, even though real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife; and their noses are usually drawn looking more like a cat's or a dog's, even though RealLife. And while real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses.noses, they'll usually be drawn with cat-noses or dog-noses in cartoons. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, their noses are usually drawn looking more like a cat's or a dog's, even though real rabbits have "V"-shaped noses. Rats and other rodents are often portrayed with canine teeth, instead of incisors. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits and hares are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, RealLife; and their noses are usually drawn looking more like a cat's or a dog's, even though real rabbits and hares have "V"-shaped noses. Rats and other Also, rodents are often portrayed with and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth, instead of incisors.teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or their noses shaped are usually drawn looking more like a cat's or a dog's.dog's, even though real rabbits have "V"-shaped noses. Rats and other rodents are often portrayed with canine teeth, instead of incisors. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, skunk spray being gaseous and emitting from the tail, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, chimpanzees and gorillas having brown fur instead of black fur, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base of the snout instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base of the snout instead of at the tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip, koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts (sometimes with their mouths located at the base of the snout instead of at the tip, tip) and large aardvark-like ears, reindeer being drawn as resembling whitetail deer (complete with the females lacking antlers all-year round), koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, anteaters having flexible snouts with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip, koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Other mistakes include porcupines shooting their quills, beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, big cats such as lions and tigers having vertical pupils like domestic cats, anteaters having flexible snouts with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip, koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
elephants. Other mistakes include beavers having white teeth as opposed to orange teeth, anteaters having flexible snouts with their mouths located at the base instead of at the tip, koalas having only one thumb instead of two, and chipmunks having short deer-like tails instead of longer squirrel-like tails.
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There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins)
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There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins)
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Another mistake is that rabbits and hares are often given protective pads on the bottom of their paws.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants. Another mistake is that rabbits and hares are often given protective pads on the bottom of their paws.
elephants.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
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People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. teeth or noses shaped like a cat's or a dog's. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
elephants. Another mistake is that rabbits and hares are often given protective pads on the bottom of their paws.
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Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
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Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.Pleistocene.
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Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.
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Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.Pleistocene.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the Carnivorans and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the Carnivorans weasels and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla).
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), Carnivora, closely related to seals and raccoons and more distantly to dogs), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), Lagomorpha, closely related to rodents but their own thing),[[note]]They together form a single superorder Glires[[/note]] and shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Eulipotyphla).
Eulipotyphla, only very distantly related to rodents). We should note here that the Carnivorans and Eulipotyphlans are more closely related to each other than the rodents, and the rodents are more closely related to ''humans'' than either of those.[[note]]Glires--the lagomorphs and rodents--form a clade with the Euarchonta--the primates and close relatives. This is partly why rats and mice make such good models for us.[[/note]]
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha), and hedgehogs and moonrats (order Erinaceomorpha).
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Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha), and hedgehogs shrews, moles, solenodons, hedgehogs, and moonrats (order Erinaceomorpha).
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!!General Taxonomy Mistakes Concerning Mammals
One of the most {{egregious}} examples is mistaking cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for fish.
There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins)
Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha), and hedgehogs and moonrats (order Erinaceomorpha).
And don't forget that humans are NOT descended from monkeys. We're descended from apes. And we still are apes. Great Apes, to be specific.[[note]]Actually, this is one of the great controversies in biology wings, especially with the rise of cladistics (in short: treating all of evolution like a family tree rather than using the kingdom-phylum-class structure), and its proponents saying that we, indeed, ''do'' descend from monkeys; apes are a subset of monkey like human is a subset of ape.[[/note]]
!!General Mammal Anatomy Mistakes
People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
!!Other Mistakes Concerning Mammals
Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.
One of the most {{egregious}} examples is mistaking cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) for fish.
There's also those who insist that orcas, or killer whales, are just whales and not dolphins as well. Orcas are dolphins, which are toothed whales, so people are right about them being whales, but wrong about them not being dolphins. (Or those who insist that killer whales are not whales, but dolphins)
Another example is the fact that many people mistake kinkajous for primates. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinkajou Kinkajous]] are not primates, but a member of the raccoon family within the order Carnivora. There are also a lot of mammals are mistaken for rodents, including weasels (in Carnivora), rabbits, hares, and pikas (order Lagomorpha), shrews and moles (order Soricomorpha), and hedgehogs and moonrats (order Erinaceomorpha).
And don't forget that humans are NOT descended from monkeys. We're descended from apes. And we still are apes. Great Apes, to be specific.[[note]]Actually, this is one of the great controversies in biology wings, especially with the rise of cladistics (in short: treating all of evolution like a family tree rather than using the kingdom-phylum-class structure), and its proponents saying that we, indeed, ''do'' descend from monkeys; apes are a subset of monkey like human is a subset of ape.[[/note]]
!!General Mammal Anatomy Mistakes
People draw male kangaroos with pouches. The only extant (still existing) marsupial with both sexes having a pouch is the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yapok yapok]], a semi-aquatic opossum native to South America. The Thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, exhibited this trait too, but it is now extinct. Rabbits are often drawn with paw pads, which they don't have in RealLife. Also, rodents and lagomorphs do not have canine teeth. Another example includes elephants drinking with their trunks instead of sucking up the liquid with their trunks and then squirting it into their mouths, like real elephants.
!!Other Mistakes Concerning Mammals
Another example is to refer to saber toothed cats, mammoths, and other Pleistocene megafauna as dinosaurs just because they are fierce and extinct and/or portraying them as being around during the Mesozoic era. Saber toothed cats are several groups of now-extinct, [[CaptainObvious big-fanged]] cats that first appeared during the Eocene, going extinct during the Pleistocene.
If something talks about canine social behavior and the writer isn't an ethologist, the information is at best hilariously out of date and at worst dangerously wrong.
